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November 2, 2024
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Accessibility Tagging Issues in PDF Export from InDesign - Tags Reverting or Disappearing

  • November 2, 2024
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Please help! I have exported my InDesign file as a pdf document and I am trying to tag with accessibility tags... I have automatically added tags and now in the process of fixing the tagging - but every time I save it, it will either revert back to old, removes tags, moves them around or makes them blank! This is a client project and I am in big strife if I cannot get this to work. When looking at the reading order, it is also all out of wack and I cannot get it to match the tag list order... which may be part of the issue... help!  I keep fixing it and it keeps changing. 

 

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Dave Creamer of IDEAS
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November 3, 2024

Your PDF has tags but they are not structured. (I didn't study the entire document.)

Are your InDesign style names very long? 

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
Dave Creamer of IDEAS
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November 3, 2024

BTW, if you have time in your schedule, this is a great resource to order:

https://www.pubcom.com/books/bevi_508-indesign/508indesign.shtml

 

 

 

 

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Joel Cherney
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November 2, 2024

It sounds like you're doing post-PDF-export remediation in Acrobat? Not certain what kind of fixing you're doing post-export, but I wonder how much of it can be done upstream in InDesign. I don't think that reading order should be something you need to fix post-export in Acrobat; you should be able to fix that kind of thing in InDesign before export. 

 

Do you have your stories threaded in reading order?

Do you have objects anchored to those stories?

Did you order your stories in the Articles panel?

Do you have your objects arranged in the Layers menu according to the reverse order in which they should be read?  (That is, first read at the bottom of the stack)

Do you have a separate layer for objects to be artifacted - to be excluded from the reading order? 

 

Here's a good thread to start with, if these questions come as a surprise

 

 

 

kglad
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November 2, 2024

in the future, to find the best place to post your message, use the list here, https://community.adobe.com/

p.s. i don't think the adobe website, and forums in particular, are easy to navigate, so don't spend a lot of time searching that forum list. do your best and we'll move the post (like this one has already been moved) if it helps you get responses.



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